ETFs: Charging Less to Pick Stocks

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I ... you trade your stock pickers a fighting chance and Jack Otter Editor Barron's dot com here with ... Brendan Conway who writes our focus on Funds broad ... uptrend in you write about what may be a new trend is already starting to really be picking up steam ... in actively managed ETF Sutherlin stock pickers ... who instead of running mutual funds are running Shiper TCS which might give them a little closer to matching the performance of index funds which of course that that claim to be all ... that's right yet yet you know ... a lot of interesting subjects in part because you seen an old line money managers ... the man's Fidelity ... Lingling regulatory around with him in this area ... now ... what one theory that we're in a sweet spot is kind of interesting ... is is essentially if it is fun to get this he's down ... he does have a better chance of beating the index ... for the smashing ... I'm so it's the old yellow line in the news in ... the of course if that happens presuming it can be a lot of pressure on the mutual fund industry the older phones to lower their expenses ... the because they have this competition from acting managed ETF so ... seems to be the investors probably go in here I think so this is the only thing keeping my is that it's it's the same companies brought in those funds ... are driving this trend you know and and ... the virulent his pee ... on it will be slower moving in the main areas we are here they seem ... to ... that point another investment very popular with some readers have been an reached mortgages mortgage rates excuse me ... I've been doing very well course in this environment as the housing markets come back a bit ... Q we of course is been falling all of this the easy money policies ... but you're right that that trend may be ending ... yet economics has been a tough couple of weeks for most of all these ... which you don't normally the no name swings like the remains of the moving four times its present ... in and day out the most recent issue was Optum was aware of all of the of the law Street Journal ... had a story that comment previews of ... how the Federal Reserve is ultimately thinking about ending its easy money policies ... I'm ... not a good sign the lease for propose to him and when does that ... exactly and finally I Japan we talk to the Japan alot very popular individual investors the index's going gangbusters ... now I see a hedge fund manager giving granular is actually going in this only trying to shake things up not an easy thing for American investors do over there I plunged because of its history here ... knowing Sony bought Columbia Pictures ... Americans all said they overpaid it's ever looked that way first and then there's turnaround ... now Daniel Loeb says its contract something that's right yes a little bit is pushing Sony to spin off Time Park harness entertainment business ... I thought it was interesting because so far this year received an ... incredible outperformance ... all on the Nikkei ... up leading in all worlds ... the stock market index ... are funds that track this area in the U S have just all went in Boston this year ... this is the seven marks the change ... you seek I'm planning that could mean ... to single stops ... I mean it this year is shaping up as a remarkable wanted a pretty glass after a quarter century of underperformers maybe this is by Lipper's or set a floor ... of the mentor finally there the Japanese stock market will